On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Galen Beals wrote:
quoted 10 lines Andrew Schrock wrote:> Andrew Schrock wrote:
> > You know, I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the Clavia Nord Modular
> > yet. I know Autechre have used it a lot (namely on Chilchisuite).
> Wait a minute here, I'm almost positive that it was just a Nord Lead 1. I do
> know the nord modular was not even out back then. I read an article a while
> back (Sound on Sound, if you can find that issue let me know what month it was
> in) that said that they did most of Cichli Suite with a Nord Lead. I take that
> to mean that they used it to compose the music but added DSP treatment
> afterward. Then they went on to say that they couldn't understand why they
> weren't reading more about in the press.
Now that you mention it and I look back at the article, they were talking
about a Nord Lead. Sorry for the confusion/misinformation, you are
correct. I was probably thinking about Mouse on Mars.
quoted 8 lines It's a very deep system, capable of almost any analog sound you can think> > It's a very deep system, capable of almost any analog sound you can think
> > of. (of
> > course, it still sounds like a Nord, but that's not really a bad thing)
>
> Absolutely! I love the Nords. Especially the Nord lead 2. One of the best
> features of this thing is the electronic percussion patches. People don't
> usually expect it to be able to do that kind of stuff but it sound really
> great.
The modulars have even deeper ability programming-wise than the Lead due
to their modular nature. You can do literally anything with these, with
the possible exception of some really DSP-intensive stuff like a Sheperd
generator. (not sure if these modules even exist in the Clavia module
landscape) However you do get some really cool things with the Modulars,
like expander, compressor, distortion, sequencers, and drum synth modules.
The stereo input is icing on the cake. Com'on, you can hardly get a useful
FILTERBANK for as much as a used Micro Modular is going for.
Sorry if this is getting rapidly way off-topic, I'll stop now.
Andrew
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